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I bought an ATI Radeon 9600 PRO about 6 months ago. My guarantee runs on for another couple of months, but I've been running my computer on what I think is the verge. The thing is, I have a 380W PSU, and beside the radeon, memory, cpu, motherboard, optical mouse, standard keyboard, externally fed sound boxes and bla bla bla I have 3 extra fans, a Network PCI and a DVD Burner. Although I know a 380 Watt PSU is really limiting the low side (I've even heard clicks of the PSU reseting without the PC restarting), I've never had any problems. The thing is, after installing Colin McRae Rally 2005 my computer has been freezing during this game, and latter I noticed, in another one as well. I haven't played games for a while, so I can't know if this is something of CMR 2005 or what. Maybe the PSU has had it, maybe my graphics card is flawed, dunno. The game just freezes... no black screen, no restart, just regular freeze. I tried waiting it out, but no good. And the freeze is on random times either, not at an especific part of the game....
So here's the thing... How can I tell if it's my graphics card, something else, or the PSU that are haywire? a Programs perhaps? I know the hardware system monitor will show me the voltage variations and all, but I have no clue if it's within the safe limits...
I use Windows XP SP2 with an AstonShell extension, Sempron 2400+, 768MB DRAM, Asrock K7S41GX 2.00 Motherboard, Radeon 9600 Pro GPU and 380Watts power supply. If anyone that can help me with this problem need more info, just post up, I'll check every a few hours. Thanks In Advance
Aphis
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